Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) − the European public procurement journal. 124909-2014 - Spain-Alicante: Professional development and occupational retraining services for staff of the OHIM
Description of the field or fields covered by the call for expressions of interest:
Courses relating to the following fields: 1. management, conflict management, supervisions, business management and organisation, project management, change management, management coaching, 360-degree assessment; 2. finance, procurement, contract and treasury; 3. customer relations, marketing, how to communicate with and welcome the public, protocol, internal and external communication; 4. audit, operational audit, standards and quality control, ethics and integrity, anti-fraud, balanced score card and indicators management; 5. human resources management and career guidance, social/organisational psychology; 6. individual development techniques (oral and written expression techniques, work organisation and personal efficiency, time management, stress management, chairing meetings, emotional intelligence, mind mapping, how to negotiate efficiently, developing memory capacity, etc.), mediation, soft skills in general; 7. special techniques for in-house trainers and coaching techniques for trainers; 8. logistics, organisation of large scale events, supply, infrastructure management, working environment, hygiene and safety, building maintenance; 9. secretarial and documentalist posts, administrative or general efficiency, filing, archiving, documentation; 10. better use of the Office's official languages in a professional context (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish), language in general; 11. office automation, micro-computing and new technologies, at user level; 12. specialised training for computer specialists and computer maintenance engineers; 13. intellectual/industrial property (trade marks, designs, patents, copyright, counterfeiting, etc.); 14. international, national and comparative laws, policies, economics, and practice (civil, commercial, administrative, criminal, procedural, data protection, labour, etc.); 15. European Union (EU law, policies, economics, practice, etc.); 16. team building, team development, organising events designed to improve team performance; 17. knowledge management, content management, digitalisation; 18. others: any other subject which companies feel would be useful to the OHIM
Period of validity of the list resulting from this call for expressions of interest:
The list will be valid for 3 years from the date on which this notice is sent to the Publications Office of the European Union.1.4.2014. Applications to appear on this list may be submitted at any time during the period of validity of this list, with the exception of the last 3 months of that period.
This open call falls under measure (b) and aims to support the networking, exchange, sharing and transfer of knowledge, technology, experience and best practice between project promoters on the one hand and entities from the Donor states on the other hand. The project promoters referred to in this call are those selected under the following Programme expected outcomes:
Provision of welfare and basic services to defined target groups increased
Improve the level of competences and skills of Master graduates, and their employability.
EMJMDs support the following activities:
The delivery of an EMJMD programme corresponding to 60, 90 or 120 ECTS credits, organised through an international consortium of higher education institutions and including the participation of invited scholars (guest lecturers) for teaching, training and/or research purposes.
The award of scholarships to excellent students worldwide for their participation in one of these EMJMD programmes.
Deadline:18 February 2016 (12:00 CET – Midday Brussels time)
ELIGIBLE ACTIONS Only the activities relating to the development phase for the following projects are eligible: - Narrative storytelling video games regardless of platform or expected distribution method. In all cases the video game must be intended for commercial exploitation.
BUDGET The total budget available is 2.6 M €. The financial contribution awarded is a subsidy. The contribution is between EUR 10.000 and EUR 150.000 for the concept and project development of an European video game (activities to the point that the concept leads to a playable prototype or trial version).
ELIGIBLE ACTIONS Action 1: Film Literacy Projects providing mechanisms for better cooperation between film literacy initiatives in Europe with the aim to improve the efficiency and European dimension of these initiatives. Projects require at least 3 partners (project leader and at least 2 partners) that are active in the field of film literacy and come from 3 different countries participating in the MEDIA Subprogramme and cover at least 3 different languages.
Action 2: Audience development initiatives Audience development initiatives focusing on innovative and participatory strategies reaching out to wider, especially young, audiences with European films. - Projects shall comprise a minimum of 3 partners (project leader and at least 2 partners) from the audiovisual sector coming from 3 different countries participating in the MEDIA Sub-programme; - Project shall target audiences in at least 3 different countries participating in the MEDIA Sub-programme; - Projects shall focus on European films.
Deadline:03/03/2016 at 12.00 noon (midday Brussels time)
The aim of the call is to support the organization and implementation of short campaigns or one-time movements, social or/and joint actions. The actions must address one or several of the below horizontal concerns of the EEA/Norway grants:
human rights and the rights of minorities (based on ethnic, religious, linguistic and sexual orientation), equal opportunities;
combating racism and xenophobia, homophobia, anti-Semitism, extremism;
tolerance, multicultural understanding and social inclusion instead of discrimination and exclusion;
understanding, mitigation and solution of problems arising from poverty and inequalities (with special attention to the situation of Roma);
promoting gender equality, combating inequalities, gender-based and domestic violence and trafficking.
The MEDIA Sub-programme shall provide support for the following measures:
support initiatives presenting and promoting a diversity of European audiovisual works;
support activities aiming at increasing knowledge and interest of audiences in European audiovisual works.
The EU financial contribution will take the form of a lump sum according to the number of European films in the programming, between EUR 19.000 and EUR 75.000.
Submission of full proposals will be invited from 3 November 2015 and closes on 1 February 2016 (13:00 CET). Projects are expected to start in late 2016.
Scope of the call
The strategic objective of ERA-IB-2 calls is to foster the competitiveness of Europe´s industrial biotechnology research by supporting academic and industrial research and their strategic partnerships. The ERA-IB-2 focus is to support innovation and pre-competitive research by funding projects with challenging application aspects and a substantial industrial impact.
Under the current "call for proposals" €7.56 billion are being made available to improve European transport infrastructure, promote innovation and new technologies, develop intelligent transport systems and mitigate the safety and environmental impact of the sector. Out of the total amount available, €1.09 billion are earmarked for projects in all Member States while €6.47 billion are foreseen exclusively for projects in Member States eligible for funding from the EU's Cohesion Fund.
Within the specific objective of reinforcing the European audiovisual sector's capacity to operate transnationally and internationally one of the priorities of the MEDIA Sub-programme is to increase the capacity of audiovisual operators to develop European audiovisual works with a potential to circulate in the Union and beyond and to facilitate European and international co-production, including with television broadcasters.
The Ericsson Innovation Awards are a global competition that gives students the opportunity to develop innovative ICT ideas in collaboration with Ericsson experts. The theme for EIA 2016 is the future of city life. The competition is therefore focused on ideas that use ICT to improve the quality of urban life and to ensure that tomorrow’s cities are creative, connected and sustainable places to live and work.
Increase the capacity of audiovisual producers to develop European projects with the potential to circulate in the Union and beyond, and to facilitate European and international co-production.
The development activities for the following audiovisual works are eligible:
- Feature films, animations and creative documentaries of a minimum length of 60 minutes intended primarily for cinematic release - Fiction projects (one-off or series) of a total duration of minimum 90 minutes, animation (oneoff or series) of a total duration of minimum 24 minutes and creative documentaries (one-off or series) of a total duration of minimum 50 minutes intended primarily for the purposes of television - Fiction projects of a total duration or user experience of minimum 90 minutes, animation of a total duration or user experience of minimum 24 minutes and creative documentaries of a total duration or user experience of minimum 50 minutes intended primarily for the purposes of Digital platform exploitation.
The objective of the Call is to select projects which support and complement the efforts of participating states and eligible third countries in prevention and preparedness in civil protection and marine pollution focusing on areas where a common European approach is more appropriate. The Call covers two separate policy areas, prevention and preparedness, each with…
EU certification of sending and hosting organisations certified for taking part in the EU Aid Volunteers initiative, which provides opportunities for European volunteers within humanitarian aid projects. Find out eligibility criteria and timetables and apply for funding here.
The overall objective to which this call will contribute is to support implementation of the EU Aid Volunteers initiative by establishing a certification mechanism for sending and for hosting organisations ensuring that these organisations comply with the standards and procedures referred to in Article 9 of Regulation 375/2014, the programme legal base. The specific objective of the present call is to compile a list of certified sending and hosting organisations.
The European Commission has now approved all 118 national and regional Rural Development Programmes (RDPs) for the 2014-2020 period. The CAP has three long-term strategic objectives for the 2014-2020 period:
Investing in rural jobs and growth to foster the competitiveness of rural businesses
Ensuring the sustainable management of natural resources, and climate action for example by supporting the use of environmentally-friendly farming practices and investments in renewable energy
Achieving a balanced territorial development of rural economies and communities for example through the rollout of fast and ultra-fast broadband in rural areas
In total, 118 RDPs worth over €99.6 billion from the EU budget cover all 28 Member States
The main objectives of this three year ENS project are to:
1) Study the extent and impact of the arbitrary immigration detention of stateless people and those at risk of statelessness in Europe. It is important to note in this context that stateless persons may also be asylum seekers, failed asylum seekers or completely unrelated to the asylum system.
2) Develop regional and country-specific tools to protect stateless persons and those at risk of statelessness from arbitrary detention in Europe.
Remuneration and expenses A research fee of GBP 3,000 for conducting the research and drafting (and if necessary translating) the country report and toolkit will be paid. In addition, a fee of GBP 800 will be paid for organizing and facilitating the country training workshop. Furthermore, research and publication expenses of up to GBP 600 will be covered for the country research, and GBP 600 will be provided to cover the costs of the country workshop. This the overall amount available is GBP 5,000.
The global objective is to contribute to an increase of the level of social cohesion in Latin America.
The specific objective (s) of this call for proposals is to support national social, good governance and gender equality public policies aiming at enhancing the level of social cohesion and at strengthening the institutions responsible for their implementation.
The following priority areas of action will be supported in the implementation of EUROsociAL+:
Social policies:
Improve quality of employment, the prevention and reduction of unemployment, underemployment and informality, and the promotion of social protection and labour market policies.
Address the constraints that prevent vulnerable groups (indigenous people, migrants, etc.) from benefiting of social policies.
Good governance policies:
Fiscal policies, specifically, measures addressing the efficiency, equitability, progressiveness and transparency of the tax systems and revenue collection in order to promote social cohesion policies, as well as the increase in government accountability and transparency and the fight against corruption (activity based management including budgetary allocation of funds, voluntary fulfilment of tax obligations, tax reforms, fiscal and tax education, etc.).
Equal access to justice to all, eliminating barriers and discriminating measures. Policies that promote information on rights and obligations, strengthening public defence offices, alternative mechanisms of conflict resolution, reduction of access to justice barriers, social rehabilitation policies for inmates, violence prevention, etc.
Support to long term strategic planning, definition of public policies for the reduction of social inequalities and quality of social expenditure in public administration (i.e.: regional development policies, etc.).
Gender equality policies:
Strengthening of the national mechanisms for the advancement of women, peer learning and experiences sharing.
Fostering the implementation of the legal framework favourable to gender equality and facilitate possible solutions for the region to accomplish the international commitments and their monitoring.
Increasing capacities and knowledge of national institutions on integrating gender approach in different sectorial policies and implement gender-responsive policies.
Improving the use of gender indicators and data, monitoring gender-related public expenditure.
Deadline: 16/02/2016 at 16:00 (Brussels date and time)
The Award is granted each year; in odd years, the prize is dedicated to PhD candidates, and in even years to post-doctoral fellows. The prize-giving-ceremony is held every two years at the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) where the two recipients will present their work. The Award consists of a Certificate, waiving the participation fee to ESOF, a grant to cover travel and accommodation for the stay in the ESOF city and a two years’ free EuroScience membership.
The deadline for the 2016 call, dedicated to post-doctoral fellows, is February 1st, 2016.
Programme closure 2007-2013 is approaching quickly. All expenditures will have to be reported soon and it will be time to prepare for submission of the Closure Pack in March 2017. If you are still unsure about 10% flexibility on priority axes, payment of overheads after 31 December 2015 and their eligibility, or if you want to know more about planning the process of closure, please check this playlist at the Interact youtube channel for a series of 11 short videos on programme closure.
The subject matter of the contract is a study to measure the use of ICT and eHealth applications by primary care physicians in the European Union, plus Iceland, Norway and Turkey.
The “empowering people. Award” is addressed to any individual person or organization team from any region in the world. One person or one team is allowed to submit more than one entry. Submissions should be technical products and solutions in the categories Water & Waste Water, Energy, Food & Agriculture, Waste Management, Healthcare, Sheltering, Education and Information & Communication in order to fulfil basic needs of people in developing and emerging countries. Each product or solution to be submitted has to be either already implemented in a project or needs at least a prototype with a proof of concept.
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Description of the field or fields covered by the call for expressions of interest:
1. management, conflict management, supervisions, business management and organisation, project management, change management, management coaching, 360-degree assessment;
2. finance, procurement, contract and treasury;
3. customer relations, marketing, how to communicate with and welcome the public, protocol, internal and external communication;
4. audit, operational audit, standards and quality control, ethics and integrity, anti-fraud, balanced score card and indicators management;
5. human resources management and career guidance, social/organisational psychology;
6. individual development techniques (oral and written expression techniques, work organisation and personal efficiency, time management, stress management, chairing meetings, emotional intelligence, mind mapping, how to negotiate efficiently, developing memory capacity, etc.), mediation, soft skills in general;
7. special techniques for in-house trainers and coaching techniques for trainers;
8. logistics, organisation of large scale events, supply, infrastructure management, working environment, hygiene and safety, building maintenance;
9. secretarial and documentalist posts, administrative or general efficiency, filing, archiving, documentation;
10. better use of the Office's official languages in a professional context (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish), language in general;
11. office automation, micro-computing and new technologies, at user level;
12. specialised training for computer specialists and computer maintenance engineers;
13. intellectual/industrial property (trade marks, designs, patents, copyright, counterfeiting, etc.);
14. international, national and comparative laws, policies, economics, and practice (civil, commercial, administrative, criminal, procedural, data protection, labour, etc.);
15. European Union (EU law, policies, economics, practice, etc.);
16. team building, team development, organising events designed to improve team performance;
17. knowledge management, content management, digitalisation;
18. others: any other subject which companies feel would be useful to the OHIM
Applications to appear on this list may be submitted at any time during the period of validity of this list, with the exception of the last 3 months of that period.